On restarting, registered programs that were open when you shut down will restart from where they left off. It is probably preparing for this that explains why the shut down takes a little longer now.

Only certain apps can register to restart in this way, MS Office does, IE and Chrome do (but Edge doesn't). Try leaving IE open with a few tabs then shut down or restart to see this new 'feature' in action.

If you wish you can try this registry mod. Copy and paste in to a text file, change the extension to .reg, double click to merge into registry to speed up startup/shutdown and also speedup mouse hover/context menu. Reboot to take effect.

For a very long time, I've only shut down my PC, from 98 to 10, with a Quick Shutdown shortcut, like this.
I've shared this Quick Shutdown with all my customers and they really like the simplicity and SPEED of the shutdown.

%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 1

This one seems to work well on OS's from 7 to 10.My own PC, using this shortcut, shuts down in 5 sec's or less.

Cheers mate!
TechnoMage

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